Raising Money for a Startup - A Nice Take

The video gives a nice introduction about assets, angel investors, shares, valuation, and dilution.

Corporate Silence and Complex Emoting

Human beings are the only species equipped with the hardware to suppress feelings and to express the opposite of their real feelings deliberately. One of the forms this takes is the power of silence.

Silence can take many forms in corporate life. You may keep silent about your real views during a discussion. Later you may make a cynical comment to signal your opposition or even actively subvert any attempt at implementation. Alternatively, you may actually indicate your positive support, though your real view is opposite. Basically, silence is practised out of fear.

This silence is because of the third and most evolved part of the human brain known as the neo-cortex. This cortex holds two uniquely human capabilities: the first is the power of logical and rational thinking and the second is the capability of expressing 'complex' emotions. Complex emoting is the ability to express an emotion which you do not actually feel or experience. 

- When the Penny Drops by R.Gopalakrishnan

Bye Bye Brick and Mortar Schools

Huge costs to build schools and classrooms are driving people to find alternate solutions. With the growing population and industrialization, institutions have to compete for land in urban areas. It is no wonder that online education and work-from-home are the norms of the day!

But sometimes there are shortcuts to success. In Gautemala, a school has been built out of  5000 old plastic bottles and litter. A really creative and cost-effective classroom it is! To read the full story, click here.

No Ragging Online?

Colleges are all set to reopen and youngsters will enter the college premises with dreams and passion. However, the ragging menace always looms large. Is ragging always a threat? Not necessarily. Ragging is an ice-breaker and brings fun and creativity in the initial days of college. And helps to network with seniors who can guide you in studies and around the college campus. Due to ragging, many people fall in love and get married later.

But sometimes the decency limits are crossed during ragging. As students come from diverse backgrounds, what is good for someone may be bad for another. So, ragging is like gambling. The Tamilnadu government has given a mailid raggingcomplaints@gmail.com to which students affected by ragging can send a message.

Online education overcomes the ragging menace. Students meet in the online chat rooms and are focused on clearing subject queries. Higher education Online learners are working professionals and have the maturity to deal with their juniors and peers. So, ragging is not a big threat in Online Education. 

Alvin Toffler's School of Tomorrow

Alvin Toffler, the author of books about change like "Future Shock" and "Revolutionary Wealth", propounds a list of attributes for the School of Tomorrow. Alvin feels that current educational methods cater to the needs of the Industrial Revolution era. The industrial method of working needs all employees to walk into the factory at the same time, work in tandem in the factory line, and mass produce goods. The same model is employed at the schools too. All children walk into the class at the same time, simultaneously take the same set of lessons, and maintain military discipline.

Alvin Toffler envisions a new model of education that caters to the current Knowledge Era of workers. Children can start schools at the age they prefer - one child may start school at age four and another at age eight.

It's (the new school) open 24 hours a day. Different kids arrive at different times. They don't all come at the same time, like an army. They don't just ring the bells at the same time. They're different kids. They have different potentials. Now, in practice, we're not going to be able to get down to the micro level with all of this, I grant you, but in fact, I would be running a twenty-four-hour school, I would have non-teachers working with teachers in that school, I would have the kids coming and going at different times that make sense for them. 

The schools of today are essentially custodial: They're taking care of kids in work hours that are essentially nine to five -- when the whole society was assumed to work. Clearly, that's changing in our society. So should the timing. We're individualizing time; we're personalizing time. We're not having everyone arrive at the same time, leave at the same time. Why should kids arrive at the same time and leave at the same time? 

The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print -- why shouldn't a kid who's interested in one particular thing, whether it's painting or drama, or this or that, get a different version of the textbook than the kid sitting in the next seat, who is interested in engineering?

I think that schools have to be completely integrated into the community, to take advantage of the skills in the community. So, there ought to be business offices in the school, from various kinds of business in the community.

Alvin Tofflers School of Tomorrow:

These are the fundamentals of the futurist's vision for education in the 21st century:

• Open 24 hours a day
• Customized educational experience
• Kids arrive at different times
• Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages
• Curriculum is integrated across disciplines
• Nonteachers work with teachers
• Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world
• Local businesses have offices in the schools
• Increased number of charter schools

The management programs at myBskool match all parameters put across by Alvin Toffler. Check out the PGDM that myBskool offers along with IMT Ghaziabad. Click here.

Welcome June 2012

Corporates and non-profits use calendars to advance their brands. The 2012 year calendar of NGO Pratham Books has beautiful sketches, drawings, and tips that reflect their work - educating poor kids thro picture books. Mediaadds has come out with a calendar that has a fable and management message for each month. At the beginning of the year we get so many calendars that we can hang one in each of our rooms including the bathrooms! So much for branding!

Tribes and Tribal Leadership

In this interesting TED video, David Logan speaks about the 5 stages of a tribe. All of us live in tribes. And we need to evolve and reach the Level 5 for maximum performance and global good.

Stage 1: People do horrible things - guns, prisons - (2%)
Stage 2: Life sucks - lack initiative, dumb - (25%)
Stage 3: I'm great, and you are not - narcissistic - (48%)
Stage 4: A team passion greater than individual competence - fun, creativity - (22%)
Stage 5: Life is Great - good values - (2%)

Who Can Opt for an One Year Management Program?

Say, you have around 5-15 years of work experience. You are a high performer. You plan to continue in your same field of work e.g electronics, construction engineering, or pharma. You want to equip yourself with a management qualification from a reputed institute - so that you are more confident in front of clients. You also feel that getting a management qualification will help your appraisals and promotion prospects.

Not sure where to take up the course? Visit myBskool. myBskool offers a recognized PGDM in Management from IMT Ghaziabad. It is a one year program. The program has interesting features. 

• Online Course - No Classess to attend
• No break from work
• Anytime, Anywhere learning.
• Widely Recognized by Leading Corporates.
• Exhaustive Study Materials
• Video lectures delivered by Management Gurus 
• Collaborative features for interaction and Social Learning 

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What does Thomas Friedman feel about Online College Education?

Three times Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman, and author of the book “The World is Flat,” gives a Thumbs Up to Online College Education.

“Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary. The costs of getting a college degree have been rising faster than those of health care, so the need to provide low-cost, quality higher education more acute than ever. At the same time, in a knowledge economy, getting a higher-education degree is more vital than ever,” the Pulitzer prize winner writes. 


“And thanks to the spread of high-speed wireless technology, high-speed Internet, smartphones, Facebook, the cloud and tablet computers, the world has gone from connected to hyperconnected in just seven years. Finally, a generation that has grown up on these technologies is increasingly comfortable learning and interacting with professors through online platforms.” 

Are you convinced about Online Learning? Now are you thinking of an online management program? Then visit myBskool. myBskool programs have been built for a three-screen platform — PC, tablet and smart phone. And offers 6,000 audio/ podcast and 2,500 video lectures, delivered by management professors and experts from around the country.

Look at Online Studyroom of myBskool

How does the Online Study Room of myBskool look like? When you enter the Online Study Room you can see a list of Management Subjects such as Strategic Management, Financial Accounting, Business Law, and Foundation of IT. When you select the Management topic you want to learn, a list of sub-topics are displayed.

Every sub-topic has video lectures, powerpoint presentations and assessments. The video lectures are delivered by highly qualified and experienced management professionals and lecturers. The PowerPoint presentations have accompanying audio. The assessments test the learning outcomes using multiple-choice and other question models. So, the studyroom gives an enriching learning experience.

Do you want to see a demo of the courses? Click here. Register, view, and give us a feedback about the Studyroom.

Studyroom Videos

Studyroom Powerpoint Presentations

Studyroom Assessments

IMT Ghaziabad - Centre for Distance Learning

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myBskool - Online Management Education

Gaurav in an engineer and is eagerly awaiting promotion at work. He is a team player and a good leader and is assured of a promotion. Nevertheless, he has a nagging feeling that he is not an academically qualified  Management Professional. Some of  his juniors have a Management qualification.

"So, its high time i qualify myself," thought Gaurav. But, he is married and cannot not afford to take a break from his career. He has invested in life insurance schemes and has only limited funds for his higher education. Gaurav is also dreaming of a qualification from a reputed management school.

Can Gaurav fulfill his dream? Is there a good solution for his future growth?

Yes.myBskool is a one-stop-solution for all your management degree dreams. myBskool offers a one year PGDM from the reputed Institute of Management and Technology, Ghaziabad. Who will hesitate to get  a cost-effective degree while learning from their home PC? Are you in Gaurav's position today? If so, be quick and contact course counsellors at myBskool.

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